Daily updates about Syria

6/7/2014

Rebels made advances in Mleha yesterday, including the rubber factory and al-Dalati mosque.

The SAA has launched an offensive in Latakia province on the Jabal al Akrad area. Coordinated attacks on Akko, Kafr Dalbe, and Salma are being conducted.

The likely objective is to secure the highway linking Latakia and Ariha.

Western intelligence agencies have given the names of 5,000 prospective foreign fighters to Turkey in order to try and stop them from reaching Syria.

Bassam al-Ahmad, from the Violations Documentation Center, said that more than 200,000 people have been detained by the government since the beginning of the uprising and that 70,00 people have been transferred to the anti-terrorism court that was established in mid-2012.

A government airstrike hit the Bab al-Hawa hospital in Idlib.

Heavy fighting was reported around Tell al-Jomou, which is near Nawa in Daraa province, as FSA and SRF forces attempted to storm it.

Rebels in the trench system at Tell al-Jomou:

Susan Rice, the US National Security Adviser, said that the US is supplying lethal aid to certain opposition groups.

The ISIL has blocked access to the Deir Ez Zor, including food delivery, for 4 days.

The Islamic Front in Aleppo has merged its factions in in order to reflect the formation and discipline of regular armies and make it an even more effective fighting force. It plans to have the same formations in other provinces.

Liwa ‘a Thuwar al-Raqqa captured the town of Hazimeh from the ISIL in Raqqa province.

Destruction in Deir Ez Zor.

5 of Jaish al-Islam’s type-63 107mm MRL artillery rocket launchers

Students of Aleppo University protest the latest water cut-off.

The ISIL preparing to execute 3 men in al-Bab.

The men who were executed and crucified by the ISIL in Manbej, Aleppo.